"Ay, so it would--and this is the force of attraction that we call gravity." He carefully lowers his end of the tablecloth. "Lesser things tend toward greater; their paths bend, circling the well of that which hath the greatest mass. So does the moon orbit the Earth, and the Earth, the sun; so, too, do we mortal men tend toward the Earth rather than drifting into the sky, for the Earth is greater than any of us." A little smile. "So do I tend toward thee."